David Stahel, associate professor of history at the University of New South Wales and author of Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded, joins the show to talk about Heinz Guderian, the myth and the man.
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• 01:38 Introduction
• 02:57 Diving into the letters
• 08:43 Debunking
• 15:30 A sinister figure
• 19:39 Achtung - Panzer!
• 27:37 Guderian the Nazi
• 33:42 Poland and France
• 45:49 Russia
• 50:50 Barbarossa bound to fail?
• 54:48 Guderian the chameleon